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Wikipedia: Sniffer dogs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffer_dog
"In the United States, police dogs (which are almost always German Shepherds) are usually trained in Germany and so usually understand commands in German. This might also be an asset in that the criminal being chased doesn't know what the dog is going to do (German isn't frequently understood in the U.S.)." Is this for real? Police dogs are almost always German Shepherds? They're usually trained in Germany? They usually (only) understand commands in German? (I'll allow that German isn't frequently understood in the US--but then it's not frequently understood in a lot of other places too.) -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Wikipedia: Sniffer dogs
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Opinicus wrote: Is this for real? Police dogs are almost always German Shepherds? They're usually trained in Germany? They usually (only) understand commands in German? My experience with Ag Dept. sniffer dogs at border crossings/airport customs is that they tend to be beagles, and they don't understand any commands (HA HA - just kidding [about the commands, anyway - they really have tended to be beagles]). Different agencies use different dogs for different purposes. I've found a very large number of errors in Wikipedia articles. They tend to be contributed by people with third-hand information and lots of spare time, and if they're not on popular topics they don't get much review. It's sufficiently bad that it's not even a trust-but- verify situation. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - The federal debt limit has had to be raised four times since George Bush took office. |
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Wikipedia: Sniffer dogs
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:00:10 +0200 Opinicus whittled these words:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffer_dog "In the United States, police dogs (which are almost always German Shepherds) are usually trained in Germany and so usually understand commands in German. This might also be an asset in that the criminal being chased doesn't know what the dog is going to do (German isn't frequently understood in the U.S.)." Is this for real? Police dogs are almost always German Shepherds? They're usually trained in Germany? They usually (only) understand commands in German? (I'll allow that German isn't frequently understood in the US--but then it's not frequently understood in a lot of other places too.) It was true maybe 20 years ago. It isn't true any more. First it depends on the definition of "police dog". There are many different breeds used by a variety of law enforcement agencies. Larger dogs are used when the takss involved "man work" the ability to stop or control a human. In that line the Malinios is probably more popular than the GSD. Smaller dogs are sometimes used for various kinds of scent work from which can include contraband detection (including illegal fruits, vegetables and meats etc), accelerant detection for arson investigation, narcotics detection, and explosives detection. Tracking dogs are of various breeds. Of the breeds used for man work many are imported, but from a vareity of countries. They may be trained in Czech, Russian, German or *gasp* English. Since 911 there has been substantial change in both the sourcing and training of dogs largely to meet the time and volume needs. -- Diane Blackman There is no moral victory in proclaiming to abhor violence while preaching with violent words. http://dog-play.com/ http://dogplayshops.com/ |
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Wikipedia: Sniffer dogs
german shepards are used by the police and rcmp, however avalanche dogs
are often mixed breed. prefering a border collie croosed with belgian sheperd. those are the most common dogs used,itisseennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnnnnnn at times though to see beagles and hunting dogs used for rescue. |
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Wikipedia: Sniffer dogs
Numbers and Shapes:
The Timeless Alphabet of Art and Life "Come into the light of things; let nature be your teacher." -- William Wordsworth Microscopic radiolarian skeleton Egyptian Eye of Horus, whose parts were the hieroglyphs for fractions totaling 63/64. Where is the missing piece which "restores" unity? The Timeless Alphabet: An introduction to the symbolic language of numbers and shapes These classes introduce participants to the timeless, symbolic language of numbers and shapes which appear as the forms of nature, as symbols of religion and mythology, in the proportions of worldwide art and architecture, and in fairy tales and folk sayings. Just a few numbers and their shapes compose this archetypal alphabet upon which the designs of the universe, from atoms, flowers, seashells to the human body and galaxies and are based. The forms of nature are forces made visible. Each number and shape conveys specific meaning, and everything in nature tells us its purpose if we know how to read the language in which it is written. Great spiritual art, crafts and architecture have always used this language of number, shape, pattern and proportion to manifest harmonious composition. Knowing nature's own language is a step towards our harmonious, respectful cooperation with a wonderworld of beauty, and a key to understanding the symbolic significance of numbers and shapes wherever they occur. The symbolic significance of numbers and shapes is not arbitrary or cultural but comes from their timeless characteristics, their properties alone, and the ways they relate with others. It's best to let numbers and shapes themselves teach you directly, so bring a geometric compass, straightedge, colored pencils and blank paper for hands-on experiences. We don't need any math background to learn the gentle alphabet of nature's design language. The most important reason for these studies is their healing and uplifting property. With this in mind, Plato wrote ... "'You amuse me,' I said, 'with your obvious fear that the public will disapprove if the subjects you prescribe don't seem useful. But it is in fact no easy matter, but very difficult for people to believe that there is a faculty in the mind of each of us which these studies purify and rekindle after it has been ruined and blinded by other pursuits, though it is more worth preserving than any eye since it is the only organ by which we perceive the truth. Those who agree with us about this will give your proposals unqualified approval, but those who are quite unaware of it will probably think you are talking nonsense, as they won't see what other benefit is to be expected from such studies." These classes are informative and inspiring, and will rekindle and enhance your own investigations and understanding by means of the wisdom inherent in numbers and shapes. Come learn the language of your native world! This information is especially valuable to artists, craftspeople, architects, educators and students of symbolism in worldwide traditions. God the Geometer, Bible Moralisee, 1215 A star exhales 1&2 Unity & Polarity T Unity is a fact of nature, and all numbers and shapes unfold from Unity, number 1, represented by the point, circle and sphere, are most efficient forms and worldwide symbols of heavenly perfection. But Unity casts its own shadow to "create" polarity, represented geometrically by the compass itself, and the Vesica Piscis, the almond opening through which all other numbers and shapes are born. Notice the light triangle in the clover 3 Trinity: Tri-Unity The birth of the number 3 and triangle enables opposites to balance and transcend to a new wholeness they couldn't achieve by themselves. A third leg makes a tripod stable, and a third strand of hair allows a braid to knot as one whole, just as neutral judges balance opposing parties, neutrons balance atoms, and the Supreme Court plays the role of the balancing, transcendent third force. This class surveys the appearance of trinities in nature and as worldwide religious symbols, investigating spiritual art which uses the unseen triangular frame to convey this archetypal power. Tungsten atoms form a crystal 4: Fair And Square This class examines the symbolism and appearances of the number four and its representative forms, the square, cube and tetrahedron. Fourness is the essence of volume, underlying the forms of crystals and creatures, and is a symbol of earth, manifestation and the four states of matter ("mater" or mother) shaping and clothing the designs of nature, arts, crafts and architecture. Thus it appears worldwide as a number of directions and migrations, represented everywhere from goddess art to divinatory board games. Slice of a Celery stalk 5: The Flag of Life In starfish and flowers, corporate logos and flags, the number five and the amazing regenerative geometry of the pentagon and pentagram star appear in nature and human affairs as a sign of life (the flower of every edible fruit is five-petaled). It is a worldwide symbol of humanity, authority, harmony, beauty and excellence. Participants will learn to recognize the five-ness of living forms, and see how artists from Egypt and Greece to Raphael and Dali have applied five-fold symmetry -- the flag of life -- to create harmony in their compositions. Sensitive hairs within the human ear's cochlea, arranged in hexagonal pattern, transduce vibrations into electric impulses and "sounds". 6: The Joy Of Six The principle of sixness is that of structure, function and order, the efficient properties of space, power and time. It appears as the close-packed crystalline patterns of snowflakes, diamonds, chicken wire and honeycombs, as well as the underlying pattern within much spiritual art including the Sphinx and Egyptian jewelry and painting, Chinese sculpture and the U.S. Great Seal.. Multiples of six (especially 12, 24, 30, 36 and 60) provide the sacred measures of space, weight and time, from rulers and protractors to clocks and calendars. Participants will explore the mystery of the sixfold pattern as it appears in many of its universal guises. The Seven Pleiades 7: The Virgin Number The number seven was considered "virgin" by the ancients because no number goes into it (without remainder), and its geometric construction cannot be captured by compass and straightedge. Thus it appears to us as objects we cannot grasp like the colors of the rainbow and tones of the musical scale. The predominance of seven in religious and mythological symbolism reveals its role as the number of stages in a whole process, from the number of crystal systems and endocrine glands to chakras and "heavens" clues to the stages of our spiritual journey. Participants will learn how to tune a musical instrument to the Pythagorean scale used in ancient musical healing therapy. Aztec Sun Calendar 8: Periodic Renewal What is it about the number eight and the geometry of the octagon which makes it so popular in the design of sacred buildings around the world? Participants will tour various expressions of the properties of this fascinating number and see how it reveals the principle of the musical octave, periodic renewal, at work through the universe, from the mythology of Grandmother Spider and the Siberian Shaman's eight-legged horse, the pattern of rhythmic flow symbolized in the I Ching, in computer chips, the Taoist "Eight Immortals" and Buddhist mandalas which make visible the "Eightfold Path". We'll look at sacred architecture including mosques, ancient temples and even the U. S. Capitol Building to discover the principle of "periodic renewal" at work. Dante and Beatrice gazing at the thrice three rings of Heaven aroundtheir divine center. 9: The Horizon In traditional worldwide number lore, nine, or thrice three, was referred to as "the horizon" symbolizing the ultimate, the maximum, "the whole nine yards". This class will look at the ways people have revered the number nine and its principles through their arts, crafts, architecture, literature, mathematics, mythology, religion and folk-sayings, from "cloud nine" and a pagoda's nine levels to a cat's nine lives. Casual atti no need to "dress to the nines". DNA molecule, seen from above 10: New Unity The number ten is a traditional symbol of fulfillment, a return to unity after having gone through the experience represented by single-digit numbers. Tens, hundreds and thousands represent greater powers of Unity. Participants will see how a knowledge of the mathematical principles within "ten" help us to understand its appearances in nature, as well as the philosophical basis of many cultures' religious scripture, architecture and arts. We will explore the traditional wisdom held in the Tetraktys, symbol of the Pythagoreans, as well as the hidden map of ourselves in the Kabbalah's "Tree of Life" diagram. 11: The Passageway The number eleven is quite a mystery. References in sacred literature, philosophy, art and architecture are rare and obscure, but they do exist. It was considered to tresspass beyond 10, but incomplete approaching 12. Resembling the principles of the number 2, of which it is a lower form, 11 represents a door, tunnel or passageway, not only between the realms represented by numbers 10 and 12, but appears as the number of days of the Babylonian New Year's Festival (the door between years), as the link between the Chinese Magic Squares of Heaven and Earth, as Egyptian bread offerings, in many Islamic references, and is important in the history of measure. To where does this passage lead us? 12: Cosmic Dozens and The Cosmological Circle "The universe is simple if you use imagination. Its pattern is the number Twelve which structures all Creation. You need not study physics or be versed in numerology To draw from Threes and Fours the duodecimal cosmology." --"Twelve Fold Universe" by John Michell To live in accord with the perceived cosmic order, countless societies mirrored upon Earth the patterns they saw in the sky and in mathematics, particularly around the wondrous properties of the number twelve. Twelve is the traditional "framework number" embracing and interrelating the numbers below and beyond it. From time immemorial the archetypal "twelve-around-one" pattern of the zodiac was mirrored in twelve-tribe societies, the mythologies of twelve heroic ordeals, twelve spiritual disciples, and the designs of monuments, temples and cultures mediating between Heaven and Earth, from Stonehenge to the U.S. Government. Come learn about worldwide traditions of the Duodecimal (twelvefold) Cosmology. The "Cosmological Circle" refers to an ancient geometric diagram which appears throughout the world underlying the designs of temples, kivas, churches, mandalas and other expressions of sacred arts, crafts and architecture. Its secret is that it makes visible the harmony of all the numbers 1 through 12 and so represents a harmonious sacred microcosm. We'll see how its "squared-circle" design insures that such temples are properly oriented to the solstices and equinoxes, and symbolizes that the site occurs at the meeting of Heaven and Earth. isis ^^^ |
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Wikipedia: Sniffer dogs
shh my owner is awke un he is real mad. kind aha, he donut mind mind
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